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Diego Zandel's new mystery is "A Balkan Affair"
Late April 1997. After a long negotiation, Telecom Italia (with the Greek OTE) acquires 49 percent of the shares of Telekom Serbia. The deal, in which the secret services of the two countries are also involved, is facilitated by strange characters, the so-called “facilitators”, linked to the Serbian president Slobodan Milošević. The Italian company pays an enormous sum: 1.500 million German marks that Milošević demands in cash and that, in part, is delivered to him by private jet in eighteen jute sacks from the Serbian Post Office. A Balkan affair is inspired by that disturbing transaction and the author, at the time responsible for the Corporate Press of Telecom...
Diego Zandel received the 2023 Tomizza Award
Last Monday at the Caffè Tommaseo in Trieste, the Fulvio Tomizza Award 2023 was awarded to the writer Diego Zandel, assigned by the Lions Club Trieste Europa, now in its nineteenth edition and sponsored by the Municipality of Trieste. The Lions Club Trieste Europa, established in 2003, to honor the memory of the writer Fulvio Tomizza and his ideals of coexistence and sharing between peoples and cultures, values that are part of the mission of Lionism, awards the “Fulvio Tomizza Award” every year to – this is the motivation – "a personality who, over time, has distinguished himself in the concrete affirmation of the ideals of mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence...
New edition of “The Boundaries of Hate” by Diego Zandel
The Borders of Hatred by Diego Zandel is a provocative and gripping novel about the inter-ethnic war in the former Yugoslavia, which led to its dissolution, a war that marks the thirtieth anniversary of its beginning. Originally published in 2002 by Aragno, it tells a story of violence and sorrowful pity. A son, Bruno Lednaz, accompanies the body of his father, who had asked to be buried in Fiume, his hometown, then Italian, then Yugoslavian, and today, after the war in the Balkans, Croatian. A few months ago, the peace agreement was signed in Dayton, in the United States, which sanctions, after four long years of war, the division of the territories...
Sarajevo hotels
On the thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo, the documentary film "Hotel Sarajevo" by director Barbara Cupisti was released. The title is inspired by the Holiday Inn hotel, built for the 1984 Winter Olympics and which became a base for international journalists during the war. On April 5, thirty years ago, the siege of the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia Herzegovina began, in the context of the war in the former Yugoslavia that had already been underway for a year. It would last 1425 days, the longest in modern history. For the occasion, the documentary "Hotel Sarajevo" was produced by Clipper Media, Luce Cinecittà and Rai Cinema, based on an idea by Andrea...
Valerio Di Donato tells The Flames of the Balkans
Love and war, past and present, alternate in a story that draws inspiration from the tragedies that have crossed the Balkans, tragedies that Ivan and Mirna's intense love story will try to find a way out of. A review Having retired after years of journalism as a correspondent for "Il Giornale di Brescia", Valerio Di Donato has put his experience to good use, especially that in the context of the war in the Balkans, to write a novel "Le fiamme dei Balcani", published by Oltre Edizioni, which tells a long bloody story that begins in Istria, in the years of the Second World War with the tragedy of the Istrian exodus and with the...
“The Istrian Trilogy in Franco Giraldi’s Cinema” at the Casa del Ricordo
On Friday 5 November at 17:00 pm at the Casa del Ricordo (Via di San Teodoro, 72 – Rome) the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia is organizing the presentation of the book by Alessandro Cuk (National Vice President of Anvgd and film critic) “The Istrian trilogy in the cinema of Franco Giraldi” (Alcione, Venice 2021). This book, also presented at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, focuses on three films by the recently deceased filmmaker from Gorizia, taken from stories set in Istria, of which some clips will be screened: The red rose (1973), from a novel by Pier Antonio Quarantotti...
A novel in the Fiume tormented by the Ozna
Thanks to Diego Zandel's reviews, OBC Transeuropa readers can keep up to date with much of the fiction that is published in bookstores and is connected to the Balkans. But Diego is not only this, he is first and foremost a writer himself and a tireless cultural animator. We interviewed him on the occasion of the reprint of two of his novels. Both Operazione Venere and Crociera pericolo - recently published by Oltre Edizioni - are two re-editions of the novels published in the historic Segretissimo series by Mondadori and are part of the so-called Esperia trilogy. What does this vessel represent? I consider the two novels an "entertainment",...
Lavinia's eyes
Gianclaudio de Angelini began to publish his poems on Facebook as “posts”, in Italian and in Istriot (the Istriot-Venetian dialect spoken mainly in Rovinj and Dignano) and his haiku. And every time I read them, I admired them. And this, over the years, verse after verse, made me increasingly aware of their poetic value. So, one fine day not long ago, I decided to ask him to collect his poems in Italian and in Istriot and his lightning-fast haiku to explore the possibility of an anthology that would anthologically bring together the three threads through which he expresses himself. And here is the book. I think that as I was struck by it, so...
In memory of Franco Giraldi
by Diego Zandel - 04/12/2020 I don't remember when I personally met Franco Giraldi, the director who passed away last December 2 in Trieste, from Covid, at the age of 89. Certainly in the 2000s, when he was the partner of the writer Elisabetta Rasy, who had introduced me as a contributor to the afternoon edition of the Roman daily Paese Sera, for which I believe she was a correspondent and to whose morning edition I already collaborated. But I became friends with him many years later, in the early 1974s, on the occasion of a screening of the film La Rosa Rossa, from XNUMX, at the Casa del Cinema in Rome, which was broadcast on television at the time and adapted by Giraldi from the novel of the same name by the writer...
Maria Pasquinelli speaks
All that I saw. Maria Pasquinelli speaks. 1943-1945 mass graves, foibe, sea This is the title of the book fresh off the press, published by Oltre Edizioni, edited by Rosanna Turcinovich and Rossana Poletti, two journalists who need no introduction, so well-known is their activity on “our” newspapers, in particular the former, with a curriculum of other books regarding our history and, more generally, our world. Rossana Poletti, although a long-time professional, on the other hand we met, at least the writer, more recently, at the last gathering of the people of Fiume, in 2019, on Lake Garda, where, both at the Vittoriale degli Italiani and at...
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